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At the time, everything about France and the students I spent time with seemed so different: the fashion, the music, the food all so delightfully “foreign”. I caught the travel bug way back in the early ’80’s when I went on a high-school student exchange trip to a small seaside town in France called Les Sables d’Olonne. Posted in Developer, Personal | No Comments » To my utter surprise and delight, he replied, saying: “Thanks John, all the best.” Later that evening I sent him an email in an attempt to better express my feelings. It was an awkward, fleeting moment, and I was completely tongue-tied. A few years back at a Stanford Business School event, I had the chance to personally thank Steve for all he has given the world. It is a career option that like so many others, would not have been remotely imaginable without the amazing tools made by Steve Jobs and his genius colleagues.

#Memoryminer software#

I have loved every minute of the roller-coaster ride that is being a software entrepreneur. Little did any of us know that the following Tuesday, NeXT hardware would be discontinued on what became known as Black Tuesday. It was a perfect father/son moment, one that stood in marked contrast to the steely Linotype execs who were at that moment probably wondering what they’d gotten themselves into. In the end he did, but for several minutes before starting his talk, he put everything on hold to play with his young son Reed, making shadows in the projector light. They didn’t know if he would even show up. Up until the last moment before the appointed time of Steve’s speech, our colleagues at NeXT were visibly nervous. The NeXT computer had been famously referred to as “the best machine for desktop publishing” by industry pundit Jonathan Seybold. The company I co-founded at the time was also there, showing off some clever publishing software we created.

This was back in 1993 and Linotype was releasing a really cool pre-press system that could only have been created on NeXT computers. I remember being at the Linotype-Hell users conference in Arizona where Steve Jobs was to give a speech at the opening night dinner.